History Awesome / IronFist2017

* Bakuto gives us an idea as to how powerful a fully-realized Iron Fist is by showing footage of Danny's [[spoiler:1948 predecessor battling a squad of armed Chinese soldiers with both hands blazing with weaponized chi the entire time.]]
* [[spoiler: Bakuto]] vs. Danny, a no-holds-barred showdown in a cramped space. For Danny.
* [[spoiler:Davos]] and Danny teaming up to escape the [[spoiler:Hand compound.]]
** This needs some elaboration. The pair are taking on not just a few guards. They are fighting ''[[UpToEleven the entire school,]]'' each student an expert in martial arts, recruited by Colleen or Bakuto, who are masters as well, not to mention that Danny is dealing with a stab wound from earlier. And except for Bakuto, [[CurbStompBattle not a single one poses a remote threat.]]

** This needs some elaboration. The pair are taking on not just a few guards. They are fighting ''[[UpToEleven the entire school,]]'' each student an expert in martial arts, recruited by Colleen or Bakuto, who are masters as well. And except for Bakuto, [[CurbStompBattle not a single one poses a remote threat.]]

** The various leadups are pretty epic. During his conversation with [[spoiler: with Harold, who was pretending to be a ghost]] Danny off-handedly mentions that he is able to focus more as others hit him. Then near to the end of the episode, [[NightmareFuel he is put in a straitjacket and escorted to a room where he is beat up by Ward's goons]]. The beating continues for a while until [[BloodUpgrade Danny starts bleed from his lip]], at which he gives a SlasherSmile. The mooks continue to beat him up, and then stops for a while to say ""Ward Meachum sends his greetings"", at which a yellow glow begins to emanate from under the straitjacket. Danny then rips through the straijacket and then proceeds to tear through them, and then storms out of the room with his hand flickering with yellow light. Then he runs for the exit, and then, look read the above.

** Bride of 9 Spiders catches Danny off guard with her feminine wiles, something the celibate hero has no defense against, before she poisons him and engages him directly. Danny remembers Lei Kung telling him to abandon grief for his parents and either choose to embrace darkness or reject it-he rejects the Bride's words and KOs her with a kick, after performing a kata that blows the nearby lights out!

* Danny's next move is to commandeer Ward's car when his driver is out. Ward pulls out a gun and points it at Danny, who for the first time in the episode gets angry and tells Ward to put down the gun. Ward does [[JustForPun cocky]] non-verbal taunt by coking his gun and pointing it at Danny again. [[LetsGetDangerous Danny shows him why you]] shouldn't be pointing a gun at close range at a master martial artist by effortless disarming him and pointing it at Ward.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[CallBack ''This'' is what the Iron Fist means.]]]]

* [[spoiler: Bakuto]] vs. Danny, a no-holds-barred showdown in a cramped space.

** The various leadups are pretty epic. During his conversation with [[spoiler: with Harold, who was pretending to be a ghost]] Danny off-handedly mentions that he is able to focus more as others hit him. Then near to the end of the episode, [[NightmareFuel he is put in a straitjacket and escorted to a room where he is beat up by Ward's goons]]. The beating continues for a while until [[BloodUpgrade Danny starts bleed from his lip]], at which he gives a SlasherSmile. The mooks continue to beat him up, and then stops for a while to say ""Ward Meachum sends his greetings"", at which a yellow glow begins to emanate from under the straitjacket. Danny then rips through the straijacket and then proceeds to tear through them, and then storms out of the room with his hand flickering with yellow light. Then he runs for the exit, and then, ''[[MegatonPunch PUNCHES THROUGH IT.]]'' A reinforced steel door, and he rips it clear off its hinges.

** The various leadups are pretty epic. During his conversation with [[spoiler: with Harold, who was pretending to be a ghost]] Danny off-handedly mentions that he is able to focus more as others hit him. Then near to the end of the episode, [[NightmareFuel he is put in a straitjacket and escorted to a room where he is beat up by Ward's goons]]. The beating continues for a while until [[BloodUpgrade Danny starts bleed from his lip]], at which he gives a SlasherSmile. The mooks continue to beat him up, and then stops for a while to say ""Ward Meachum sends his greetings"", at which a yellow glow begins to emanate from under the straitjacket. Danny then rips through the straijacket and then proceeds to tear through them, and then storms out of the room with his hand flickering with yellow light. Then he runs for the exit, and then, look above.

* Danny's next (dumb) move is to commandeer Ward's car when his driver is out. Ward pulls out a gun and points it at Danny, who for the first time in the episode gets angry and tells Ward to put down the gun. Ward does [[JustForPun cocky]] non-verbal taunt by coking his gun and pointing it at Danny again. [[LetsGetDangerous Danny shows him why you]] shouldn't be pointing a gun at close range at a master martial artist by effortless disarming him and pointing it at Ward.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''That'' is what the Iron Fist means.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''That'' is what the Iron Fist means, Claire.]]

* Danny's Spider Man-esque backflip over an incoming taxi that was about to run him over. Joy's JawDrop is just icing on the cake.
* Danny next (dumb) move is to commandeer Ward's car when his driver is out. Ward pulls out a gun and points it at Danny, who for the first time in the episode gets angry and tells Ward to put down the gun. Ward does [[JustForPun cocky]] non-verbal taunt by coking his gun and pointing it at Danny again. [[LetsGetDangerous Danny shows him why you]] shouldn't be pointing a gun at close range at a master martial artist by effortless disarming him and pointing it at Ward.

* Danny's Spider Man-esque backflip over an incoming taxi that was about to run him over. Joey's JawDrop is just icing on the cake.

* Danny vs the security guards at Rand Enterprises. He effortlessly takes them out, but without hurting a single one. This shows two things. One, unlike the previous three heroes of the Netflix series, Danny is a NiceGuy who would prefer not to hurt anyone. Two, being nice won't stop him from effortlessly handing you your ass.
* Danny gets another CMOA when he shows pickpockets an employee while standing right next to her in the elevator, swipes it in and hits the floor button and replaces it without her knowing. He may be the sweetest of the Defenders, but that doesn't mean he can't be sneaky.

** Danny's driving. While he's no expert, he does one hell of a job for some who hasn't been behind the steering wheel for a decade and half.

* Danny fighting the Triads trying to kidnap Joy in the hallway leading up to his apartment and in a descending elevator. They're all armed with two hatchets each and he uses the Iron Fist just once to block a blade strike-which shatters the elevator's lights and pushes the rest of the fist into dark red mood lighting. The rest of the time, he's fighting them barehanded. The entire fight shows off the difference between this show and the other Netflix shows, even in the red lighting, its fairly bright, its far more stylized, and despite Danny's prowess not brutal-despite a few bone breaks here and there-to show off not only Danny's skills, but his restraint (though its clear once a Triad punches Joy in the face that Danny is...less than pleased).

* Claire reaches the culmination of her development in this series. Her first episode has her improvising a dressing for a perforated lung using a ''credit card'', and from there she insists on tagging along as a full team member, able to fight Hand members and even stealing some WolverineClaws from them and making them her signature weapon.

** Harold gets to see his daughter for the first time in over a decade-he's visibly moved and emotional. Then he notices someone hurt her and he asks Gao to be allowed to kill whoever did it-which he does with one sword slice. Papa Meachum's not a nice guy, all the more reason not to hurt his daughter.

** The various leadups are pretty epic. During his conversation with [[spoiler: with Harold, who was pretending to be a ghost]] Danny off-handedly mentions that he is able to focus more as others hit him. Then near to the end of the episode, [[NightmareFuel he is put in a straitjacket and escorted to a room where he is beat up by Ward's goons]]. The beating continues for a while until [[BloodUpgrade Danny starts bleed from his lip]], at which he gives a BerserkerGrin. The mooks continue to beat him up, and then stops for a while to say ""Ward Meachum sends his greetings"", at which a yellow glow begins to emanate from under the straitjacket. Danny then rips through the straijacket and then proceeds to tear through them, and then storms out of the room with his hand flickering with yellow light. Then he runs for the exit, and then, look above.

** Danny's driving. While he's no expert, he does one hell of a job for some who hasn't been behind the steering wheel for decades.

* Danny, sick of how Rand Enterprises is treating the Staten Island manufacturing plant situation, decides to do the right thing. He calls Karen Page at the New York Bulletin, and tells her that Rand Enterprises is shutting down the plant to prevent anyone else from getting cancer from the plant, while still keeping the plant workers on the payroll. He does this ''before'' he tells the Board so they can't out vote him.
* Ward, in turn, proves he's his father's son, and has the [[TheDogBitesBack same will of iron when he gets pushed too far]], and proves it when he [[spoiler: kill Harold with the same knife Harodl used to kill the Hand agents and take off his finger]].

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